Anne Redpath
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domestic still-lifes Art Work
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Anne Redpath |
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Female |
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Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Scottish |
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1895 |
| Death: |
1965 |
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domestic still-lifes |
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Painting
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Biography
Along with Elizabeth Blackadder and Joan Eardley, Anne Redpath is among the most significant twentieth-century Scottish painters. Redpath trained at Edinburgh College of Art. She was awarded a travelling scholarship to Belgium, France and Italy in 1919. In the same year her paintings were noticed by the critic for the Scotsman who wrote that they were 'marked by a pleasing purity of strength and color'. Following her marriage and move to France in 1920, she stopped painting for a number of years to bring up her three sons.
In 1934 Redpath returned to Scotland without her husband and began to work again, painting landscapes and the vibrant still lifes for which she became known. These show the influence of modem French artists (she admired Braque and Matisse), and of an earlier generation of Scottish colorists, such as Samuel Peploe and J. D. Fergusson. Redpath also worked as a decorative artist, designing tapestry and painting furniture.
Being a woman artist affected Redpath's critical reception, and her work was dismissed as 'sugary' with a 'feminine' sense of color. She joined the Scottish Society of Women Artists, which had been founded as a result of discrimination against women at the Royal Scottish Academy, becoming president in 1944. And Redpaths spearheaded a breakthrough when she became the first woman to be made a full member of the Academy in 1952.She had numerous solo exhibitions, including a touring show organized by the Arts Council in 1965. A retrospective was held at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, in 1996-7. |
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